Ye Also Ought

The Few

Jesus draws a direct conclusion here, if I then, your Lord and Master, have washed, ye also ought, worth noticing this specific logic, his own genuine humility in this act named as the actual basis for a corresponding obligation, not optional suggestion but ought, genuine expectation flowing directly from his own example.

This is worth examining against however much your own investment in others has stopped short of this described humility, willing to teach or instruct from a position of comparative authority, while genuinely humble, sacrificial service, this specific example, has remained comparatively rare or absent.

Notice one another’s feet, mutual, not merely one-directional, suggesting this humble service is not only what you owe those you disciple, but a genuine, mutual posture, worth holding as needed correction against assuming discipleship flows only one direction, teacher serving student, without genuine mutuality also present.

Consider today what washing feet, genuinely humble, sacrificial service, specifically looks like in your own relationships with those you disciple, not merely instruction offered from comparative authority, but this described, mutual humility, following Jesus’s own direct, unavoidable logic here.